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Example? we see the traffic is enormous heading north. not much traffic heading south. at what point do you make that decision to move, to move all of those lanes into the same direction? >> what we do first, wolf, we're tracking this everywhere. highway patrol. the department of transportation. we have cameras around the state. we have law enforcement pushing. the first thing we do is we add the shoulders. and so -- but we've got to keep every safe. depends how fast traffic is going to keep everybody safe first. we'll do everything we can to make sure people are able to evacuate. i tell peopl...

Trying to flee irma's path. rosa, what is the latest you are hearing? >> reporter: since we last talked, poppy, two new developments. miami-dade opening four more shelters. that increases the number of shelters to eight. there's at least one pet friendly shelter. american airlines are winding down operations tomorrow, with operations cancelling through the weekend. this is because the giant storm is heading this way and everybody heed the warner in south florida. when it comes to evacuations, our friends in monroe where 25,000 people evacuated are all heading north. here in miami-dade, there a...

Delta 399. all them waiving fees. the airlines are coming together. home depot called me and said what do i need? they ran out of plywood. they're having trucks coming in delivering to home depot. in one day in florida 355,000 pieces of plywood were sold. floridians are listening. >> julie: bringing in the trucks is tough with all the traffic heading north. getting out of florida is a nightmare. you mentioned the airlines. unlike price gouging at gas stations, airlines have a loophole. they've been overseen by the federal government. that's how it works, not by individual states. there have be...

Folks but that's going to be a serious, very serious problem. rosa, we'll get back to you shortly. i want to bring in kwoout storm chaser reed timer. this is an area that is a ghost town right now because for the last couple days, people have been told there, get out. >> well, right now, i can see a steady stream of traffic that are heading out of town right now. the gas stations were largely out of gas yesterday but then a gas truck came in today and then everybody was waiting in line to fill up with gas. that's going to be their final thing before they head north on i-95 but they're taking i...

>> heading north, the scenery opens up. the space between things gets wider, more pastoral, more beautiful. looking around at my fellow passengers, it could be hard to distinguishes between the 135-plus ethnic groups that make up the burmese population. the very name, burma, refers actually to only one of these groups. what they all seem to have in common, however, is a thanaka, a face bank and sun block made from tree bark that masks many of their faces. at first jarring to see, it quickly becomes something you get used to and take for granted.